Down with colonialism! / Ho Chi Minh ; introduction by Walden Bello.

Selections from the writings of Ho Chi Minh.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxx).

Introduction ---- 1. Speech at the Tours Congress --- 2. Indochina --- 3. The Anti-French Resistance --- 4. Some Considerations on the Colonial Question --- 5. Annamese Women and French Domination --- 6. An Open Letter to M. Albert Sarraut, Minister of Colonies --- 7. Murderous Civilization! --- 8. The Martyrdom of Amdouni and Ben-Belkhir --- 9. About Siki --- 10. Menagerie --- 11. The Counter-Revolutionary Army --- 12. The Workers' Movement in Turkey --- 13. Report on the National and Colonial Questions at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International --- 14. Lenin and the Colonial Peoples --- 15. Appeal Made on the Occasion of the Founding of the Indochinese Communist Party --- 16. The Party's Line in the Period of the Democratic Front --- 17. Letter from Abroad --- 18. Instructions for the Setting up of the Armed Propaganda Brigade for the Liberation of Viet Nam --- 19. Appeal for General Insurrection --- 20. Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam --- 21. To the People's Committees in the Whole Country (North, South, Centre) and at All Levels (Province, District and Village) --- 22. Appeal to Compatriots to Carry Out Destruction, to Wage Resistance War --- 23. Appeal Issued after Six Months of Resistance --- 24. Twelve Recommendations --- 25. To the National Congress of Militiamen --- 26. To the 6th Congress of Party Cadres --- 27. To Peasant Cadres --- 28. Instructions Given at the Conference Reviewing the Second Le Hong Phong Military Campaign --- 29. On the Fifth Anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day --- 30. Political Report at the Second National Congress of the Viet Nam Workers' Party --- 31. The Imperialist Aggressors Can Never Enslave the Heroic Vietnamese People --- 32. To Practise Thrift and Oppose Embezzlement, Waste and Bureaucracy --- 33. Instructions Given at a Conference on Guerrilla Warfare --- 34. Report to the Third Session of the National Assembly --- 35. Report to the Sixth Plenum of the Viet Nam Workers' Party Central Committee --- 36. To the Nation --- 37. Instructions Given at the Conference Reviewing the Mass Education in the First Half of 1956 --- 38. Consolidation and Development of Ideological Unity among Marxist-Leninist Parties --- 39. On Revolutionary Morality --- 40. Report on the Draft Amended Constitution --- 41. Thirty Years of Activity of the Party --- 42. The Path which Led Me to Leninism --- 43. The Chinese Revolution and the Vietnamese Revolution --- 44. Address to the Sixth Session of the Second National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam --- 45. Appeal to Compatriots and Fighters throughout the Country --- 46. Talk to District Cadres Attending a Training Class --- 47. Elevate Revolutionary Ethics, Make a Clean Sweep of Individualism --- 48. Appeal on the Occasion of 20 July 1969 --- 49. Testament.

Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, having defeated Japanese and French colonialist became a hate figure of the USA during the Vietnam War. Anti-globalization activist Walden Bello shows why Ho Chi Minh should still be read by anti-imperialists the world over. -- Back cover.